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The color of the shirt you’re wearing right now depends on many factors, from your eye shape to what language you speak.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?

Tasting sounds and hearing colors.

The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.

“We wouldn’t be able to talk about minerals if it weren’t for the minerals themselves.” Mineralogist Bob Hazen explains how Earth’s rocks can teach us about our planet’s technicolor history.

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.

Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.

Colors can influence your emotions and behaviors, but “color psychology” yields no real insight into your personality.

The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.

Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.

From Æthelred the Unready to Halfdan the Bad Entertainer, these strange epithets colored the legacy of four rather unlucky historical figures.

Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.

The perfectly accessible, perfectly knowable Universe of classical physics is gone forever, no matter what interpretation you choose.

The Grammy-nominated artist reflects on a life of heartbreak and a future full of hope.

Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?

Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

An inclusion expert explains why women of color are held back.

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.

With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we’re certain.

The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.

Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.

While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.

Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.

Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?